What's the most iconic piece of armour in history?

What's the most iconic piece of armour in history?

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i think you just posted it.
Whenever you see a helmet (a*n* helmet ?) of this shape, you automatically think about the wehrmacht, and thus, associate the (bad) guy who wear it with the nazis. Just watch the latest scooby doo episodes, the robot soldiers have these helmets, what do you think immediately ? These robots are evil of course...

This helmet. When americans switched to the ear-covered style people actually got mad because it looked like nazi helmets despite their superior design

That's because the jews have been trying deliverately to program it into people.

Pic related is the true helmet of evil.

Corinthian helmet, followed by the Lorica segmentata.

Changed how combat worked because swords couldn't pierce or slice it and was cheap to make and supplied all around.

Why is a mongol wearing that helm?

forgot image

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i prefer the picklehaube

Okay, this is true.
We have a winner.
Everyone go home.

Roman legionary shield
Greek hoplite shield

Is the spike just for ornamental purposes?

The Corinthian helmet is godlike. Can't explain.

what an autistic thread

the reasoning was that a spike would help deflect falling debris

this.

The Trojan helmet

>someone correct me

Meme segmentata probably, considering how in medias it seems to be the standard armor of Romans in every era while in reality it was a pretty expensive and elite armor used mostly around the height of the empire when they could still afford to make it and support it.

>Meme

This.

Everything else in this thread is just a footnote to the Praetorian Guard's helmet. That fucking crimson mullet.

No though it did become more so in world war one.

Best most iconic armour is probably either roman centurion or knights Templar.

I think there is a few instances of soldiers killing a man with those helmets, but i think it can be done with any metal helmet.

I'd say Lorica Segmenta is up there.

yeah it's kind of a meme armor, thus the "meme segmentata" name

Also this. You see this kind of armor, you know the katana is coming.

and that it would also deflect vertical sword slicing aimed at the skull (but i still don't know how)

this, i reckon every single person in europe aged 8 and above would recognise it

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Can we include fiction? I'm voting this.

If the helmet was attached around soldiers head strongly I can see that spike becoming only liability if there ever was close combat.

obviously some kind of SS uniform.
Personally i like the conquistador and the samurai amour.

Pic related

This is all you need for a codpiece, get fucked Henry the 8th

I ment taking the helmet into your hands and bashing a fags head in

I can't believe it took me this long to think of this.

Them being absolutely useless in 20th century warfare was why they were phased out soon after WW1 started.

I mean it was made from fucking leather.

This is the most iconic hands down

ya.

Underrated

its recognisable but very few examples have been recovered and there's no descriptions in historical sources and few illustrations to confirm if it was ever used as standard equipment.

My vote is the corinthian helmet. Stylish and often used in vidya and films as a distinctive piece.

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It is this. Even normalfags know what the Stahlhelm is, but they'll struggle with ancient shit like the Roman and Spartan helmets.

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ARMOUR!?
Boy back in the day here in wales we just ran down the hills towards the Romans with nothing but blue paint covering our dicks

literally what?

>shitskin culture
>iconic

>Krauts
>White

>Rome
>White

>Rome
>White

>Sameri
>White

>GREEK
>WHITE

The Sutton Hoo helmet you absolute plebeians.

>a fucking leaf

stfu pleb.

We're talking about recognisable shit, not your favourite helmet from where the fuck that thing's from, faggot

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Not Greek but I think its the coolest armour out there. Or Samurai armour but im not a weeb.

>a fucking leaf

where are the horns?

A Helmet, you actually pronounce the H in English.

This, although they were never really used by vikings.

Helmet used by the Saxons. You know, the people who conquered and settled england

WE

I like to think winged hussars solely because of the badass wings

where did they come from? who actually used/coined them?

the Corinthian helmet is garbage, the Phrygian helmet is more iconic because Alexander conquer persia, egypt, all of greece, and yourhelmet is only iconic because of those Spartan faggots

And look where it got you.

or are they just meme helmets

Is there any doubt?

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I read they were a representation of the spears of Charlemagne.

Bucklers are underrated for how often they were used as a shield and sidearm throughout history

But its useless, those fuckers get shot and drop immediately, also it seems to make aiming a weapon impossible.

psh...you call those horns?

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>Sardinian
Shouldn't you be fucking a sheep?

wings are for carnaval parades

no u

Happy freedom day you kike

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Shouldn't you be getting shot, negroid?

we posting iconic shields now?

Shouldn't you be losing your job to illegal Moroccans and Chinese?

and/or

>Samuri
WEEB! I hate people who go "i love Jap culture or I love Chink culture but im not a weeb!" I say if you eat Asian food, consider Asians human, or even respect a TINY part of their savage culture you are subhuman

I feel my Nordic Ancestors just looking at that

England is primarly celtic still Saxons were like a small part of the popuniglion

That's garbage

>Greeks
>Not Turkniggers

piss off, your negro stench is poisoning me, back to the white house now will you?

That was a Pict they were Scottish

>Italian
>Not a mongrel negro monkey

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I like this maymay

>Robots with glowing red eyes, in scooby doo, and muscular physique
Of course they're going to be evil. At any rate those were made by a neo Nazi scientist

Also fun fact: The designs of those robots were inspired by the uniforms of the capitol police in Mamoru Oisii's Kerberos Saga, and mostly Jin-Roh

aye, simwae

>I feel my Nordic Ancestors just looking at that
No you don't because that's a meme propaganda jewwood helmet you fucking kike

Neck yourself, or more preferably get permabanned for quote walls.

What's the matter? Did I hurt your feelings with the truth?
>tfw more Sardinians kill themselves than are born

>Khanada calling anyone mongrel
thanks for the laugh

man I fucking love the Android from Battlestar Galactica.

A FUCKING LEAF

Are you stupid? That's Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhiker's Guide

I could say the same, mongrel

Uh, no you couldn't. White americans might not be in the majority but we aren't killing ourselves more than are born.

Also, interesting that you bring immigration up.

Dw'in gwisgo dillad ysgol

How? Are you saying vikings doesn't exist

Italians were spawned by negro monkeys

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awww boo noo ur feelings hurt?

yeah you are just producing more mongrelized abominations like yourself and your nigger overlord, good job

This

Also, if you spell armor with a "u" then you are a terrorist

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MONGREL ABOMINATION ALERG

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